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A project supported
by Yorkshire Forward and the Sustainable Development Funds
of Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust and North York Moors
National Park Authority.
Context
Schools
are well on their way towards healthier eating patterns
with DfES support with the Food in Schools Toolkit and the
School Food Trust and support from Health Schools teams.
The
2006/7 academic year is a Year of Action on sustainable
development in schools. The DfES National Framework
for Sustainable Schools has identified eight 'doorways'
for schools to focus. The first of these is food and
drink in which schools are recommended to become model suppliers
of healthy, local and sustainable food and drink by 2020.
This
project offers an ideal opportunity to link the healthy
eaing agenda with Education for Sustainable Development.
It will support schools and educators across Y & H to
ensure that young people will understand the healthy options
and the sustainable development issues behind the food they
eat.
Sustainable
Food Themes
Sustainable
food covers a wide range of topics from how it is grown
to how it is processes, packaged and transported.
This project explores seven themes and how they might be
addressed at a curriculum, campus and community level.
What
we can offer
- Free CPD Teacher Training events in partnership with
other stakeholders, these can be tailored to individual
requirements
- Support and training events for Educators to enable
them to provide advice to schools they work with
- Support to Universities and colleges across the region
to integrate sustainable food into Initial Teacher Training
(ITT) programmes and free teaching sessions as part
of in ITT programmes
Kay
Whitfield, Sustainable Food Education Officer Yorkshire
& Humber, University of Bradford, e-mail k.h.whitfield@bradford.ac.uk,
Tel: 0791 7597902
www.yorkshireandhumber.net/esd/food
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